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todaySignup todayScoop (2) Not until the 19th century did popes begin to
claim the exclusive right to appoint bishops throughout the Catholic
world. Although the pope has
exercised this prerogative ever since then, it is hardly traditional. In our own time, writes Richard McBrie, a certain type of Catholic pines for "the good old
days" before the Second Vatican Council when, it is mistakenly thought,
the Lord's "organizational plan" for his church was faithfully honored
and implemented. But we realize now, in the light of history, that what people had
become accustomed to in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s was not at all a
part of the unchanging tradition of the Catholic church.[Read Richard McBrien's essay.]
Diocesan Training for Ministry, March 28
(1) Christians are and always have been communicators. Jesus sent us out
into the world to teach and baptize. We have been sent into a world
that is moving fast. How fast?
todaySecret
Graham Cliff is prest-in-charge at St. James/St. George Jermyn ... since December 1.
todaySoundbite todaySignup Signup online for diocesan events. At www.diobeth.org, click on "signup" in the righthand column. todaySting (2) A leading Vatican official has said that the doctors who performed a 9-year-old Brazilian girl's abortion needed the Catholic Church's care and concern, not its condemnation. Read more here. todayStory (2) We've often noticed that Anglicans are fierce about our parish
churches: fierce sometimes in criticism, but equally fierce by turn in
defense of what makes our parish communities special. This can manifest
itself in an odd kind of "my parish, right or wrong" attitude,
especially when criticism comes from without. [Read the AnglicansOnline essay here.] (3) Many criticize the use of technology in ministry, because they say that
ministry depends on community and face-to-face interaction, but there
is a whole generation that has found community online, and it is
imperative that the next generation of church leaders find a way to be
a part of that. [Read the Boston Globe story on how Andover chaplain updates medium of the message.]
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"If getting married is a leap of faith, than [a church] is the place to
do it." (2) She found that her church was cheaper, at $400, than other
alternatives. "When you factor in the cost of renting chairs, it was
cheaper than having it in my backyard."[Both from this Christian Science Monitor story]
• Ian Douglas to lecture in Bethlehem, March 26.
• Diocesan Training for Ministry, March 28, Wilkes-Barre.
• Organ recital at St. Stephen's Wilkes-Barre, March 29.
• Mission in the 21st Century/Beating the Boundaries, April 25.
• Christophany Goes Green, April 24-26.
• ECW Annual Meeting, May 13, Kirby House.
(1) Check out this compendium of Anglican Maladies, including Akinolism (A bipolar condition marked by alternating bouts of bravado and sullenness, with periodic eruptions separated by longer quiescent periods. Patients exhibit inflated but easily damaged egos) and Wright's Tic (Condition in which an otherwise completely sane and healthy person is given to occasional irrational outbursts of short duration but great intensity, in which he appears to forget everything he knows in his field of expertise).
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Less stressful to get laid off than stay on? Data suggest that employed
people who feel insecure in their job display similar levels of anxiety
and depression as those who are unemployed. But whereas a newly jobless
person's mental health may "bottom out" after about six months, and
then even begin to improve, the mental state of people who are
perpetually worried about losing their job just continues to
deteriorate, getting worse and worse. Read the Time Magazine story here.
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